Dr. Yaowu Xu is currently the Tech Lead Manager of the video coding research team at
Google. The team has been responsible for developing and defining VP9, the core video
technology of the WebM project. Prior to joining Google, Dr. Xu was the Vice
President of Codec Development at On2 Technologies. He was the co-creator of On2's
VPx series codecs including VP32, VP4, VP5, VP6, VP7 and VP8. These codecs were
broadly adopted by the industry and have fueled the phenomenal growth of web video.
Dr. Yaowu Xu's education background includes the BS degree in Physics, the MS and PhD
degree in Nuclear Engineering from Tsinghua University at Beijing, China. He also
holds the MS and PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of
Rochester. Dr. Xu has published many technical papers in the area of image processing
on leading journals and international conferences. He also holds many patents and has
numerous patent applications pending in the area of digital video compression. Dr.
Xu's research and development experiences include digital video compression and
processing, real time video encoding and decoding, mobile video, image processing,
pattern recognition and machine learning. His current research focuses on advanced
algorithms for digital video compression.
Google Publications
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An estimation-theoretic approach to video
denoising
Jingning Han, Timothy Kopp, Yaowu Xu
2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE, pp. 4273-4277
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An optimized template matching approach to intra
coding in video/image compression
Hui Su, Jingning Han, Yaowu Xu
IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2014, SPIE, pp. 1-6
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A Butterfly Structured Design of The Hybrid
Transform Coding Scheme
Jingning Han, Yaowu Xu, Debargha Mukherjee
Picture Coding Symposium, IEEE (2013), pp. 1-4
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Technical Overview of VP8, an open source video codec for the web
Jim Bankoski, Paul Wilkins, Yaowu Xu
2011 International Workshop on Acoustics and Video Coding and Communication,
IEEE, Barcelona, Spain (to appear)